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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-21
MINOR MATTERS.

Our Uncle Joseph Mcdonald Mentioned In
Connection with the Treasury.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON. March 20.-Mr. Smith II. Weed
had long interview with the President yester
day. His law partner, W. f. Smith, ex -Assist-
ant Secretary of the Treasury, was also in con-
sutation with the President yesterday and the
day before. Current gossip has it that Mr..
Smith had been sent for by the President, and
that the secretaryship of the Treasury had been
offered him. Those best informed, however, be-
lieve that if any significance is to be attached to
Mr.. Weeds visit it would be only for the pur-
pose Of expressing opinion from the point Of
view of experienced New York State poll
tician. Senator Voorhees,, it is understood, is
making strenuous efforts to have Indiana repre-
scented in the Cabinet He wants TO have an In
diana man appointed Secretary of the Treasury.
ard it is supposed that his candidate is ex-Sen-
ator Mcdonald. Mr. Voorhees, urges that since
the death of Vice-president Hendricks his State
has not had that prominent share in the admin
istration which the country intended.
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How Mr.. Delegate Voorhees, Sold Out to the
*. of L. and Fathered q Costly Bid.
Washington Special.
A few weeks ago Delegate Voorhees,, of
Washington Territory, a son of Senator Voor-
bees, introduced in Congress bill providing for
immense annual appropriations, intended in ef
feet for the establishment of national work
shops somewhat after the manner of expert
ments made in France at the instance of Louis
Blanc. after the uprising of lS4a Among other
things, the bill provided that no government
lands mines or other source of production and
wealth should hereafter be sold to individual
capitalists or spectators under any guise, but
lent to them sufficient for all necessary initial
expenditures. About all that Delegate Voor
hees got out of the bill was a round of abuse
from all over the country, even to the extent of
being denounced not only as Socialist, but as
an Anarchist He could not, for good reasons,
explain why he introduced the bill.
The real author of the revolutionary measure
has been in the city for several days, and lect-
ured this evening to a large audience. under the
auspices of the Federated Trades and District
Assembly 66 of the Knights of Labor. He is
Mr.. Oscar Wagner, a chip carpenter of Seattle,
editor of the Seattle labor paper, and the chief
figure OF the lively Labor movement that has been
In progress for the last year in the far North
west Within a few months. under his manage
ment politics in Seattle and all the region about
were revolutonized. The OLD party hangers on
were fred out and Knights of Labor elected to
every city and county office, and many members
of the Territorial Legislature secured. In the
campaign for Delegate to Congress. a servant of
the Northern Pacific one ticket, and
Voorhees,, a servant who had been bounced, was
on the other. OF the two the Knights preferred
Voorhees,, who signifed that he willing to
make concessions He sent word to Wagner to
come to his Office. Wagner replied that Voor-
hoaa r,1,fc IN inn md
The result of the parley was that Voorhees,
promised to present any measures proposed by
Wagner and the Knights, not with negative
shrugs and as though by request, but as repre-
seuting great constituency which demanded
such measures. Wagner laughs heartily when
he tells the story of the bitter pill he forced
down the throat of the son Of the Tall Sycamore,
and at the tremendous flashing the public press
gave him for taking the dose. 1t is Wagner's
present intention TO make tour Of the great
industrial centers of the East and South to vent
his ideas in regard to the peaceful solution of
the Chinese question and Of the entire labor
problem,
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Millionaires IS Picture-Buyers.


fhlade phla Pres5.
Men who buy pictures worth $40, 600 and over
are not so very frequent but that one would sup
pose dealer could reach all of them. But am
told by one Of the very few men in this country,
now in Philadelp hia. who hunts the millionaire
in his lar, and bats the trap with expensive
canvases that the real difficulty is in catching
these men when they have any time to pay
attention to the serious business of buying
picture. Nearly all of them expect to buy pict-
ures some time. and good many of them, in
building new house, provide pretty freely
for space in which to hang pictures. But
no business takes time like thu purchasing
of pictures, particularly if one has the econom
ical habits which most milonaires retain after
they have acquired their millions. A London
picture dealer told me that he once showing
Mr.. w. II. Vanderbilt picture at 9, 0O0 guineas,
and Mr.. Vanderbilt. after settling himself firmly
on both heels and spreading his somewhat bulk
some person before the picture, looked at it
medtatively in purchasing spirit and said:
Two thousand guneas! l suppose that in
cudes the frame" In Paris, where Mr. Van
derbilt was shown with flourish Veerbocho-
ven in which figured two cows and a sheep, he
told the dealer that he had a picture with three
cows and two sheep, which he had bought a
good deal cheaper, in spite Of the increased num-
Der of animals.
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COLLIER ON BEECHER.
Eloquent and ForcibIe Tributes to the Char
acteristics of PIymouth's Dead Pastor.

NEW YORK. March 20-Among other utter
ances by Rev. Robert Collyer. in the course of a
sermon today upon Henry Ward Beecher, at
the Church of the Messiah were these:
''Since the death of Luther. $40 years ago. the
death of no man in sacred office has SO touched
the hearts of the nations Though he was sew
enty-four years of age no one looked upon him
as old. He was the great leader of the Ameri-
can pulpit. and in this aga, save the
grand old man in England, had so much entnusi-
asm, courage and ability for the work he had to
do.
His theology was broad as the world itself.
It was not theology bound with iron band,
such they would bind on at Princeton and
Andover. That is all well enough for those who
love such bondage. =
Because Beecher was not bound with bonds
made by man. and because of his noble work
for humanity all these years, l thank God that
he was not systematic theologian; but just the
great, free reasoner we knew. He needed the
whole Republic first for his growth; and then
the whole planet for his ripenlng. He was not
of flower pot growth. He was giant in the
great woods AS well might they seek to con-
fine Niagara ia a iowerpot
Greenwood is now as sacred as Mount Yer
non"
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BUrFALOS BURNED HOTEL
Search of the Ruins Abandoned Because Of
the Dangerous Condition of the Walls.

BUFFALO, March 20.-Workmen to-day began
a search of the ruins of the Richmond Hotel.
but it was slowly prosecuted, owing to the dan
gerous condition of the walls having greatly in
creased since yesterday. The mild weather
prevailing drew out the frost, and if the walls
tumble tonight it will rot be surprising. stiff
wind would carry them over in very short order.
Charles Derrick, the contractor who has the work
in charge. watched the walls very carefully while
the men were working in the debris, and when the
laborers stopped for the night he declared that
no further risk of the living for the dead would
be allowed Tomorrow morning the walls will
be torn down, and then large force of men
will be engaged in the removal Of the debris,
without further delay. No bodies were recov-
cred to-day. Thousands of people witnessed the
scene Of the great fire. but were kept at point
OF safety by Gordon Of police and life
lines Jennie Mann, the little daughter
the rescue of whom H. B. Rumsey,. of
New York, received injuries that caused his
death, died this evening. Her mother is very
low and will not be told of her double affection
until she is strong enough to stand the shock.
Annie Nolan and Mary Murach, servants, are
expected to die at the Sisters Hospital tonight
Edward Whalen, OF Newburg, N. Y. 1t is now
feared. cannot recover. The report that Mary
Connei, servant, nad cleo Is untrue. Dut sne is
in critical condition. The death list remains
the same, with the exception of the addition of
Jennie Mann.
SCRANTON, Pa, March 20--Mr. ]. P. Acker,
of the Delaware, Lackawanna 81 Western Rail-
road Company, reported in yesterdays dispatches
among the victims of the Richmond Hotel
fire, at Buffalo, is in this city and is all right
Mr.. Acker was in Buffalo the night Of the fire,
but stopped at the Mansion House.
ROCHESTER. N. Y, March 20.-N. Banks Will
Jams, agent Of Lee Shepard s. Co., of Boston,
who was in the Hotel Richmond, at Buffalo. at
the time of the burning of that building, is safe
in this city.
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The Bald Knob Gang of Murderers.

ST. LOUIS. March 2O.--The latest advices from
Christian county are that three more Bald
knobbers have been arrested, and that on
Saturday, fifteen of the twenty eight prison
ers waived examination and taken,
heavily ironed, TO Springfield. where they
will have to lie in jail until court meets in
August, unless special session is ordered be-
fore that time, the offense with which they are
charged not being a bailable one. Judge r. l..
Hale, Of the Christian county court, has
received written request. which is
almost a peremptory demand. signed
by numerous prominent citizens to
resign, as he is accused of being a
member of the Bald Knobbers. and OF having
induced others to join tho organization. The
examination Of thirteen of the prisoners will be
held at Ozark tomorrow or on Tuesday. All of
those for whom warrants We're issued for the
killing of the Edens and Green have now been
arrested except William Walker, the leader OF
the attack on the Edens' house, who was wounded
in the affair, and is believed by many to be dead
The authorities now feel certain that they have
sufficient evidence to convict all the persons i'm
pllcated in this murder. It is evident now that
the organization is not nearly strong as was
at first reported. and that it contains not over
twohundred members
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DIR. Louis Jobert has just published book OH
THE Left-handed" Die LInkser). in which he
treats exhaus,ively of the class of persons who
more dextrous if we may use such pun
with the sinister than with the dexter hand. He
says that no traveller has ever yet come into con-
tact with purely left-handed race. but there
are some tribes which. from immemoral time,
have given preference to the use of the left
hand. Among such tribes, however. more
than 10 Ter cent are left handed. II
is sometimes the rule among such tribes to ac-
count the left-handed side, instead Of the right,
as the place of honor. He prints a curious ap-
penaix by DR.. Monroe. who has made extensive
studies of the physiological peculiarities of the
criminal class. Dr.. Monroe asserts that he has
found among condemned criminals % per cent.
who were left handed. while comparative re-
search among other persons has convinced him
that the proportion of the left-handed is not
above 9 per cent. This would a sort OF
Justification of the moral application of the
word sinister"
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TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Larry Donovan, who jumped from the Brook
lyn bridge, the Niagara bridge and other great
heights, announces that he will, on May s, jump
the Niagara Horseshoe falls and swim the
rapids.
On Saturday, an explosion at the works of the
Baltimore United Oil Company resulted in the
killing of Jacob Hoffmann. Edward Rollison
was fatally injured. and Peter Connors and
Christopher Kurtz probably fatally injured.
While hunting, yesterday afternoon, near
dentaly shot, and almost instantly killed by
Georges Starr. Both men were employees OF the
Bradford branch of the New York, Lake Erie &
Western railroad.
An incendiary entered the farm house of
Henry Fauble twelve miles from Cleveland O.
atipg carpets and bedding with gasoline, applied
a match. Mrs. Fauble terribly burned and
her daughter was also injured. The incendiary
escaped.
Guy Weber, treasurer and manager of the ST.
Andrews Bay Land Company (of Florida}, was
arrested at Cincinnati. on Saturday, on charge
of misusine the United States mails by sending
out circulars and matter designed to defraud.
The company has been Offering to sell lots in
Florida at 81 apiece.
At Remington. VT, Saturday, Thomas Stew
art was fined $40 and costs for ninety ore
offenses against the prohibition law. Should no
be unable to ray this he will be sent 10 tho
House OF Correction fer as many days as there
are dollars IN his fine. This is the second pros
ecution by the Law aud Order League, and
others are promised.
| David Clark, a retired merchant, has given
| his farm of 108 acres. in the suburbs of Hart
| ford, Conn.,, to the Hartford Hospital and the
| Old Peoples Home The donation includes
twenty Jersey cattle and ali the farm property
The whole is valued at $4,000. Mr.. Clark
| intends the gift a memorial OF his son, Les
ter Clark, n merchant of New York, who died a
! short time ago.
| Mayor Hewitt, Of New York, has determined
! to veto the resolutions adopted by the Board OF
| Aldermen providing for the engrossing and
i framing OF the resolutions adopted by the Board
Of Aldermen in 1883, in memory Of the late
| Peter Cooper, on the ground that no find nc
| authority for the payment 0. money for such
] purposes out of the city treasury. The late
Peter Cooper was the fa;her-in-law Of Mayo,
| Hewitt
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The Tu,I Familv Reunion.

WINDSOR, ILL.,, March 49, The family reunion
OF Nathan F. Tull's family was held to-day, on Mr.
Tulrs SEVENTEEN anniversary. He is of the
Oldest settlers of central Illinois, and came to
this county fftythr years ago. when the near
est town on the south was Vandala, and the
nearest on the north was Chicago. At that time
st. Louis was the nearest market for hogs and
cattle. as we'll as produce.
Mr.. Tull is the father of fourteen children. of
whom ten are living--eight of these boys. The
combined height of all is fifty feet two and one
half inches Their combined weight is l,509
pounds. Mr.. Tull has twenty grandchildren.
To-day they surprised him by all coming home
and enjoying birt hday dinner. Many friends
also were present and participated in the festiv-
tiles.
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General and Personal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, March 20-Representativ Hol-
man has gone to Indiana. Mrs. and Miss Hol-
man will remain in Washington until April l.
when they will join Representative Holman in
Indiana.
A dinner was given by ex Minister Foster, on
Wednesday, in honor of Mr. and Mrs. John
Crosby Brown, OF the banking firm of Brown
Brothers g. Co.. Of New York. The table was
tastefully ornamented, and the center was a
large dish of roses and smiax. The guests
were Mr. and Mrs. Brown, Chief Justice and
Mrs Waite, Postmaster-eeneral and Mira. Villas
Justice and Mrs. Harlan, Judge Strong Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Nordhoff. and the Rev. DR.. Bart
lett.
Senator and Miss Voorhees, will leave in n few
days for New York. and after weeks stay
there will GO to their home in Indiana.
Mr.. Trotter the new r~corder of deeds FOR
the District, VINO Was taken down with pneu-
Tnonia on Thursday last. is still dangerously i'll
His wife arrived here this afternoon, having
been snmmoned by telegraph. There has been
}as''e or no change IN his condition during the
past twenty fours, and his physicians. late to.
nsght. say thas he is very sick man.
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Sympathy for Mrs. Beecher.

Sympathy for Mrs. Beecher.
Special to the indianapolis Journal
Boston, March l9-The following communi-
cation has been sent to Mrs. Beecher by the
Ministers Evangelical Alliance of this city:
To Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher. Brooklyn. N. Y:
Dear and Honored Madam-At a largely attended
meeting of the Ministers Evangelical Alliance of
Boston and vicinity held this day in fremont Tenn
pie, the decease of your husband male subject
of special consideration. Tender and appreciative ad
dresses in commemoration of his work and worth
were made by several cergymen representing differ
ent denominations. Mr.. and Mrs. Towner co.workers
with Air. Moody. were present and sung with touch
ing propriety the song, Only Remembered by What
We Have bone The undersigned were directed to
communicate these facts to you indicative of the
sympathetic regard of the body they represent.
Very sincerely yours. JAMES M. GRAY.
NELSON 3. JONES Secretary. President.
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Death Of Christian Ak.

BALTIMORE, March 90 Christian Ak, Of the
firm Gail 81 AK. tobacco manufacturers, died
this morning at his home in this city, aged sixty
four years. He was born in Prussia, where he
received q thorough business training Es %.
loneed to, or contributed TO, nearly every benev-
client organization in tbs city, and was widely
known from his competition with societies formed
during the war for the relief Of wounded SOL
diers. His sivice on revenue matters was often
sought av officials in Washington.
sHELPrvILLE, Ind. March 20-Orla Howard,
con of State Senator Howard, of ST. Paul, died
yesterday Of lung trouble, aged twenty-one
years. He was u very bright yeung man, and d
great favorite with his associates.
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Illinois Items.

Fnrrners about Tuscola are rapidly putting in
their crops. Winter whea: is being injured by
the alternate freezing and thawins
Mrs Anna Larson, Of Victoria, AGED nearly
1919 years, thought TO be the oldest person in cen
trail Illinois, If not In the State, is dead.
The farmers near Hillsboro are busy sowin.
oats. large acreage will be seeded Winter
wheat is being damaged by the dry weather.
The Republican township conventions were
held throughout Edgar county, Oh Saturday, for
the nomination OF township officers The cleo
ton will bs held on Arril 5. In Paris township
the present incun1benis were nominated with
but two exceptions.
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A Jewish Trihuta.

New YORK, March 20-A service Ia memory
of Henry Ward Beecher was held to-day in the
Jewish temple Emanuel on Fifth avenue. In
front of the altar large portrait Of Mr..
Beecher, decorated with flowers. On the plat
form with the rabbi. Rev. DR.. Gottheil. sat Rev.
Mr.. Halliday, of Plymouth Church; Mr. How
ard, one of the original members of Plymouth
Church. and DR.. Harris, of the Temple Israel
and other leading Hebrew divines. DR.. Gottheil
pronounced glowing tribute to his late friend
and spoke of the courage and effect with which
Mr.. Beecher had always defended the Jewish
race. Mr.. Halliday also made few appropriate
remarks.
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and the lower house of Congress passed unanim-
ously 3 resolution rendering Joseph Francis, the
venerable inventor Of life saving appliances, the
thanks of Congress for his services to the coun-
try. The President was authorized in the reso-
aud presented to Mr.. Francis. The resolution
was killed by the deadly ''pocket veto" Mr..
Francis is now eighty seven years Of ago. and
his disappointment is great
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INDIANA AND ILLINOIS.

Elkhart Enters Upon What Is Thought To
BE n Season of Substantial Prosperity.
Special to the Indianapolis Journa1.
ELKHART, March 17.-That this city is enter
ing upon an era Of prosperity that has had no
parallel in its history there is abundant evidence
on every hand. The people, as whole. seem
to be possessed by an enshusasm that is equiva-
lent to grand boom in all directions.
cant store--oom in the city, while tene-
Eent-houses are at premium. New
business interests are organizing, real estate is
an object OF competition, the prices obtained for
1t being beyond the most sarguine expectations
of year or two ago, and travelling men say the
city is by far the livliesr place they visit Re-
Gently called meeting of prominent business
men was held and an organization effected for
the Improvement and bringing into the
city of suburbs. A landscape garden
er. from Galesburg ILL.,, is already
here working on an addition known as Highland
Park, and other additions will be plated and
brought within the corporate limits during tie
summer. The manufactures are all crowded to
their fullest capacities, and business blocks are
taken as rapidly as they can be constructed A
natura[gas company has been organized
and will begin work in few
days An effort is making to secure a
branch of the Grand Trunk, and one of the
finest Catholic cathedrals in northern Indiana
has already been begun. The people Of Elkhart
are more hopeful than for years. and, with all
its natural advantages, the city cannot fail to
make big stride the coming season.
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A Demand for 5000, 900 Damages.

MONTREAL. March 19.--Stewart g. Co., Of
London, Eng. and St john n. B.. to-day
tered an action against the Star (newspaper) for
800 900 damages for an alleged lbelous article
III connection with the Maritime Dank, of ST.
John. N. B.. and for $500. 900 against the Bank
of British. North America for alleged damages
sustained by the refusal of the bank to accept
ono of their checks few days ago. The hank
officials say that the check, which MAS for s.. $50.
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Government Manuscripts.

Washington Special.
Secretary Bayard, Librarian Spofford. and
Secretary Baird, Of the Smithsonian Insti-
tuition, are three of the busiest men in
Washington. Nevertheless, they are about I'M
dertaking task of great interest to his
torical scholars imposed upon them by the fol-
lowing enactment in the sundry civil appropria-
tion bill That the Secretary of State, the Lii
brarian of Congress, and the Secretary of the
Smithsonian Institution. and their successors in
Office, are hereby constituted commission,
whose duty 1t shall be to report to Congress the
character and value of the historical and other
manuscripts belonging to the government Of the
United States and what method and policy
should be pursued in regard to editing and pub
fishing the same or any of them.
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PHILADELPHIA, March 20--Arriyed. Switz.
erfand. from Antwerp
HAMBURG March 20--The steamer Rhgtia,
from Now York. March 4. arrived here to DAP.
HAvRE, March 20.-The steamer LA Gascoigne,
from New York, March Y. arrived hero this
evening
QUEENSTOWN. Msrch 20 Tho stear,er City al
Chicago from New York, Marcia &c. fcs Liver
pool. arrived hcre to-day.
NEW YORK. March 20-Ar-iyoG; ICELAND,
from Antwerp; Tower Hill. frof.. London: La
Bourgone, from Havre; Enririaes. from Medi-
terraneau ports; Mark Lane, from Japan and
China
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who throw her into the water If she owns,
they say she was good wife, after all. She
darkened room for fourteen days At the
end of this time her husbands ashes are taken
to the river, and, after peculiar ceremony of
prayers. the soul is supposed to be free 1t may
enter an insect an animal The worst pun
a woman